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The syntax doesn't matter; if the browsers implement something like this, it will make javascript a much more compelling target for compilers (even of fast, statically typed languages), so you can make your own syntax above it!
May I suggest to put the second pitch on your frontpage? (I'd remove the b-word though)
> next day red bull was sold out in austria (which was there main markets at that time)

This is also where the Western version of Red Bull is from. Originally it was an energy drink in Thailand and an Austrian partnered up with the Thai owner, adapted it to suit the Western palate and ever since then they have been going incredibly strong and long survived all energy-drink competitors that shortly popped up during the 90s.

Mateschitz's and Yoovidhya's net worth is about 5 billion each.

I don't think there is any important extreme sport event they are not involved in. Their annual "Flugtag" is legendary here in Austria! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Flugtag
Sorry, I shouldn't have said "killed". The commenting on articles in the context of reader was great. We had bunches of gmail friends who would get some good conversations going . Buzz extended that and for a while it was high-quality at least for us.

Do you remember the protests outside of Google offices when they removed that ? One couple even met through reader and got married.

The shared items RSS out was another sad loss. I had set up one client so that he could select news items using that and they would show on his site as industry news. I used it to post stuff to my own site.

Oh, and recommended items basically sucks now and related feeds rarely returns anything. It was like they removed the google magic and left it as just a feed reader.
That's an interesting report, partly because of the number of factors.

My favorite air-crash story with interesting pilot-comprehension issues was this ferry flight with only crew onboard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_6231

To summarize, the aircraft model with which the crew were most familiar had a pitot heat switch that was activated by an upward movement (the ergonomic standard direction), but this aircraft required a downward movement (or the reverse, I forget which it was, but they were reversed). This meant they went through the checkist and set all the controls, but this control was set wrong through no fault of the pilots (more the fault of the manufacturer). Result: no pitot heat in winter conditions.

Next, during the after dark flight, the pitot tube froze solid in icing conditions, after which the airspeed indication became an altitude indication, at a time when the aircraft was in a climb. This made the pilots think they were overspeeding the aircraft, and they responded by pulling back on the controls. The stick shaker worked as it should have (warning of a speed approaching a stall), But the pilots interpreted this as ... get this ... mach buffet. The pitot system kept delivering seemingly higher and higher airspeeds as they climbed and (in reality) approached stall speed.

The aircraft finally stalled fully, deeply, and unrecoverably. For those who don't know this, you must not ever stall an airliner, because they are perfectly balanced front to back, to save fuel, but the side effect is if the aircraft is stalled, it cannot be recovered and will flat-spin right into the ground.

Small private planes will typically nose down in a stall, often recovering right away for an inexperienced pilot, but airliners have different priorities, one of which is economical operation. An economical airplane cannot afford to have a constant air pressure on the top of the elevator control surfaces, so this is designed out. But in trade, you must not ever stall the aircraft or you will lose it.

In the final analysis, multiple factors were involved (as usual), but the fact that the pitot heater switch had an activation direction opposite the ergonomic standard, all by itself could have prevented the crash.

It's my favorite story about the value of adopting consistent ergonomic standards -- to increase a quantity or activate something, controls should move up, or to the right, or clockwise. To deactivate or decrease a quantity, the reverse. How hard is that?

For those reading this who aren't pilots: pilots aren't ghouls, we like reading accident reports because every report teaches us something that we might use to save ourselves and/or our passengers if we encounter the same conditions.
That is a social disease.
Another social-contacts-statuses-sharing thing, is this really needed?
This is kind of reflective of health care in general actually. The system in use (this isn't just the United States by the way, it's most of the Western world) is that we live in some state of 'healthiness' for most of our lives, where we do not interact regularly with health professionals (not just doctors) - except perhaps a pharmacist to fill some regular prescription.

Our interactions are clustered -after- we are deamed unhealthy. Only once the need is most urgent do try to become 'healthy' again. This predictably leads to a culture that favours drugs and surgery as solutions. This is so engrained that health care practically IS synonymous with drugs and surgery. This bias exists in everyone, from the health care professionals, to those who are sick, to those to who are healthy, to those who would lead us. We all have it.

The 'unintended consequences' of such a policy are the problems facing nearly all 1st world health care systems. Surging costs, potentially unsustainable growth, constant doubts of effectiveness (and actual questionable effectiveness in some areas), and in general, a culture that more or less treats staying healthy as a bang-bang control system.
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Nobody attacked C, not me, not the author. If you disagree, please be so kind to indicate the excerpt where he attacks it.

Interpreters and kernels are written in C because C is a great, and probably the best language for the job. That doesn't mean, and this was my only point, that it's the only possible language that can ever do that; it isn't.

If the best code for building from the ground up on any given piece of hardware is Javascript

Where did anyone say that? I didn't say that. The author didn't say that.

As far as I'm concerned, JavaScript is not the best code for anything except pushing code to the browser.

The only thing I said was that technically, you can write JS to do it. That's all.

Can I boot it using JavaScript? Can I control the hardware with JavaScript?

The only thing that can control the hardware is machine code. You can control the hardware with anything that can generate that. JavaScript can, therefore in theory you can control the hardware with it.
Doesn't mean it's a good idea. Doesn't mean it's better than C. Nobody ever claimed that.

But I'm pretty sure C isn't going away anytime soon.

No, it must certainly won't, and thank $DEITY for that.
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I find it kind-of interesting how common features on IM services can be rebranded into a startup.
I agree with this. I don't like the way we always need to have an excuse for not answering the phone. Sometimes it is because I'm busy coding. Some other times I may just not feel like answering the phone, and I think that's fine too. I'll call you back eventually, don't worry.

As John says, no criticism of the app itself, rather a rant about the you-should-be-available-everywhere-and-anytime mentality!
The tech to shoot and transmit this whole event live is almost as incredible as the event itself

http://www.redbullstratos.com/technology/cameras-communicati...
How will this app make a single cent?
You and me both, man. This is one of those aspects of society -- and it does seem to be pretty ubiquitous at this point -- that I just don't get. It makes me feel weirdly out of sync.

I've been putting extra effort lately into putting up lots of boundaries. I carry my cell phone a lot less. I'm slower to return calls. My email replies are brief and sporadic. It's really nice.

I see people spending a lot of time alternating between Facebook and email and texting on their phone, and ... I'm not sure if I've gone crazy, or everyone else has.

The idea behind this app, cool as it is technically, makes me a little bit sick to my stomach.
What a great computer. The memories! Even now the emulators are still not performing that well (good emulation is hard, even on speedy systems we have now) compared to the real deal. I bought a very cheap A500 last year and I regularly boot it up to play games or revive some of my 68000 assembler skillz.
Cookies and JS off by default?

Maybe we don't live in the same world.
Hi, the whole point of the system is to determine early if there is an outbreak. So that the health officials can take pre-emptive measures well before we reach a point where you start seeing sick people around you. If you can see people with flu like symptoms around you then there is no need for the system as you, yourself can tell that it is an Epidemic. An epidemic means higher number of patients with Flu like symptoms than there should be in a particular time period. The system caters for seasonal increase in the number of patients.
Perhaps if work is something you find so absorbing and such an important part of your life, any natural social solution would develop from your work interest. I don't know what you do, but are there any ways you could meet up with people doing similar stuff or with similar interests locally? Can you do any of your work away from home, in a more social environment (Starbucks e.g.)? Maybe there's a local cafe you could make a habit of visiting regularly. Just little ways to get out of your comfort zone a bit. Heck, maybe you could organise a local HN meetup? I notice you haven't put any info on your profile - maybe be a little more open and give an email and a location? Likewise on other newsgroups or online communities you enjoy. There's nothing wrong with meeting people from online.

Other things I could think of involve going on a little vacation, maybe seeing if there are some clubs or programmes around your area you could sign up for, or volunteering. Also would you consider looking into trying your hand at a random job? Say you put up some fliers for mowing people's lawns. Or offer to teach people computer skills. You can meet nice people, and teaching is a good way to practice being generous and respectful with others.

If you don't mind me asking, what sort of work do you do? And what sort of place do you live in? I'm a uni student in a pretty cozy small town, I'm sure your situation is quite different from mine :)
First, find actual data to back the assertion that low capital gains taxes back innovation.

I think you'll find that it is in fact seed capital and small business loans that back innovation, and that these facilities are generally provided by government not the private sector.

I think you'll find that what low capital gains taxes do is allow hedge fund managers to get a lower tax rate by reclassifying their income.
I was down voted cause I said something hollow. I shall pick the lesson, and:

Thx for the down-voting! :-)
From what I understand, when it comes to policy, many on the left seem focused on the person first, the money second. Is a rich person unfairly profiting from our great country? Couldn't we take that money and do something better with it? After all, aren't the needs of many people greater than the needs of just one? Let's look at people, decide how fair they are treated, then make the money do that.

Others (including myself) focus on the money. Is the money being used efficiently for things the population wants? How can people more efficiently allocate money so that we all benefit. After all, if the money is being used to its maximum effectiveness, shouldn't all the people benefit? Let's look at the money, decide how efficiently we can get that to move around, then the people will follow along behind that.

Capital gains is where this difference in philosophy hits hardest. Do we want rich folks paying the same as wage earners? Or do we want people who are better at allocating money to things that advance the species in general to have more ability to do more of that?

There's no right or wrong answer. People on both sides take the arguments too far. But when you have no entrepreneurial community and the few that you have are publicly screaming at you to slack off, perhaps you've gone a little too far in one direction.

My question is "How do governments learn what is a happy medium?" I think the answer is regularly changing up who is in charge, because there is no exact and unchanging answer. Here's hoping the French will have a chance to adjust before they destroy what little is left of their startup economy.

I'd also note that laws and policy many times are made based on the public's caricatured idea of something instead of the thing that actually exists. In the U.S., it's common to hear politicians rail against "big corporations" while proposing policies that would sack the local stock broker or web startup guy. Meanwhile the truly large corporations have lawyered up and done enough regulatory capture that they skate through. There can be a huge difference between what's advertised and what the public actually gets.
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Cancel your desk phone, and train your friends/colleagues to use voice mail or SMS. And try to use a voice-to-text service like Google Voice, so you get an email when they leave you a message.

Seriously, it's highly productive. At least it was for me.. It's their interest to reach you, that's why they are calling you and not the other way around.
Which browsers did you test your layout in?

There's overlapping text in the boxes on the frontpage in FF, Chrome and Opera. That's all I tried.
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third-party cookies

the idea is that you have a button next to the URL to install it, from where it just runs as normal (albeit still without third-party cookies, as with fb buttons)

it could also do something smart with the type of javascript being executed. for eg. the concern with javascript is dyn generating forms or iframes and auto-submitting. etc. something that you can't do with extensions but you can do with a separate browser.
I would wait for OpenSSL to provide a verified implementation of SHA3, and use it via Ruby's Digest.
Status setting is done automatically, no interaction is required... You only have to choose locations you would like to share.
You can also make your own visibility settings for each user you have in contact list. It's up to you, what you would like to share
Dear customer, in order to improve the security of your account we have implemented a new on-screen keyboard. Please use the mouse to enter your account number and PIN in order to access online banking.

The fact that this is a real technology being deployed right now doesn't hurt.
I just asked this question.

I think for the "casual user", its hard to understand that you need to login to activate that "Create Question" button. Maybe it is a good idea to have this connect buttons next to the "create question" button.

I for one was little confused, just to say.

Very cool idea btw, i'll give it a try.
Not sure if it's just me, but I don't really make phone calls to anyone except parents and a few other family members. With everyone else, friends and work related, I prefer to skype-- usually a scheduled time, but sometimes impromptu. On the flip side, I don't get that many phone calls either. Most other types of communication is asynchronous.
Uhh... I have no idea why you feel the need to be so hostile about this. Also, I don't agree with you. Generally girls are sharper socially than guys, but I have met plenty of guys with great social skills, as well as girls with limited skills, and many other variations.

And if you're suggesting that I automatically approve of the social behaviour of attractive girls, then I am afraid I beg to differ.
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See Xax for another approach.

The issue here is that NaCl and Xax are proprietary approaches done inside companies coupled very tightly with existing ISAs and not developed entirely in the open.

They are both brittle with their own particular weaknesses - NaCl is weak at handling dynamically generated code, and Xax has safety issues (there are user mode instruction sequences that can freeze some x86).

PCC may be clever, but the fact remains less effort would be required to add sandboxing of processes and peons and yield higher performance.

PNaCl from what I recall relies on LLVM which is yet to demonstrate low latency code generation performance - in contrast to older more mature code generators such as TAOS, LuaJit.

Don't get me wrong, I am in favour of a WebCPU component for low latency, near native code emission and execution. I just don't think those with the pedigree are doing the work.
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"Overflowing an int" is something that I worry about when I'm thinking in terms of memory layout of data. I shouldn't have to worry about it when working at a higher level of abstraction. Python handles this correctly:

>>> int('0x7fffffff', 16)
2147483647
>>> int('0x7fffffff', 16) + 1
2147483648L
But you can invite them to use it, it's the simplest and fastest way
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There was an interesting research a few years ago regarding the SSL icon. Since in many users the idea is actually finely-ingrained that a padlock means security on a website they just made the favicon into a lock. A surprisingly large number of users was fooled by that.

I guess the "padlock means secure" has been superceded a little by "address bar is green somewhere" by now, but the problem remains the same.
I meant that the syntax still has plenty of pitfalls. Compilers can already uses the same features lljs is using and just generate JS.
Do you find it possible to identify the signals by analysing interactions after the fact, not in real time?
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Interestingly the only other test I found with quick googling had opposite results with Novatel vs iPhone 5:

"Test Results:

iPhone 5 direct via cellular: 4.667Mbps Down & 11.122Mbps Up, 95ms Ping

New iPad via iPhone 5 with Hotspot: 14.10Mbps Down & 1.45Mbps Up, 87ms Ping

New iPad via MiFi 4620L WiFi: 20.08Mbps Down & 8.50Mbps Up, 79ms Ping"

(from http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/4281/64/)
Yahoo do something like this, they display a per user image on the login, presumably using cookies?
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> Similarly, many plants "lean" to point towards the sun. Are they "remembering" where the sun is with the increased growth on the far side?

If they had put the sun there first, then yeah, that would be external memory. That's the difference.
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App is done and would be released soon...
Immediate crash for me too on my iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.
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Drugs can create fast and much stronger addiction, but I can't say I see it actually happening much. Neither there are statisics suggesting that it happens at scale. Of course, some addicts presumably exist, but not enough to convert the problem from political one to social one (in observable Russia at least).

It still seems the main reason for war on drugs is mining government money and political leverage.
The way he balances crass humor with sonewhat profoubd psychological insights, viral self-promotion with altruism (cancer donation, rallying against SOPA and this) is quite impressive. I don't know of another individual quite as deft.
I'd love them to be a dumb pipe, but they wouldn't. Obviously they want us to pay extra.
The cloud crowd
In addition to jlgreco's mention of 'sideways' momentum (like a shuttle re-entry) which this skydiver won't have, keep in mind he's falling from within the atmosphere so he's got resistance immediately and no chance to speed up to velocities that cause enough friction to burn up meteors. A meteor gets caught by Earth's gravity long before it touches Earth's atmosphere and has plenty of time to accelerate to fabulous speeds; when it hits the atmosphere, the speed makes for enough friction to burn/melt/destroy the thing.
Is it authorized to download map tiles form Google? Is there a limit? Can there be any reason to fear that it might stop working a few days later?

I had been holding off upgrading to ios6, not to miss google maps. But if this app gets removed after I upgrade, that will be devastating.

Any one knows, is there any reason to be concerned?
No need to travel faster than the speed of light if you can cross the universe in 19 days? http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
Of course, everything will be dust before you get back including all your friends and relations. This might be difficult for everyone involved to cope with?
Absolutely a step in the right direction. How is it that, in the world of tech patents, the petitioner (the patent troll) does not become obligated to pay attorney fees and costs if the respondent prevails?
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